On Not Falling Short
Injury Epidemiology of Falls in Iowa
2025-09-26
Objectives
Today, we will learn:
- overall statistics on falls
- survival among patients who fell
- the distribution of falls across:
- demographic groups
- geographic areas
About the data
Source: Iowa Trauma Registry from 2020-2024.
- Check out Trauma Data Registry for inclusion criteria.
- The trauma registry…
- …houses data on the most severe injuries.
- …does not register all injuries in Iowa.
- Iowa Hospital Association’s Inpatient Outpatient dataset = comprehensive
Falls at a glance
Year over year, since 2020, falls make up > 55% of all injury events in Iowa. Same-level falls grow rapidly.